Steps to our logo production.

I thought that the logo was too flat so i decided to make it look a little bit thicker. 

                                    

The steps are:

1. I clicked on Format on the top of the tab.
2. Then i clicked on picture effects.
3. After that i then clicked on shadows and choose the type of shadow i wanted.

I followed all of theses steps in order to make the logo look thick.

I was unhappy with the bright blue colour so i decided to change it to a a different colour and the steps are followed.

1. I clicked on recolour 
2. Then i clicked on the dark brown colour.

I wasn't happy with the the brown colour so i decided to change it.

I Changed it into a dark purple colour and it was slightly better but the purple colour didn't suit the genre i was trying to portray so i changed it to a dark blue colour which fitted the genre better.

After the picture was done, i wanted to write the name of the logo next to the picture and the steps follows: 

1. I clicked on insert
2. I clicked on wordarts
3. I chose the format that most suited the logo

I realises that it would look weird if the text had a different colour from the logo, so i decided to change this and the steps follows:

1. I clicked on Fotmat 
2. I clicked on shape filled
3. Then i clicked on the colour i wanted

Digi-pak- Front, inside and backcovers

The new Back of the Digipak

We were totally unhappy with our previous digi-pak production, so we decide to start again at fresh.we decided to start with the back of the digi-pak instead. We used Photoshop to create this threshold effect, the effect deletes all the lighter parts of the image leaving the darker parts on a white background. We chose to create a multi-coloured back cover for our digi-pak because we wanted to create something visually interesting that would draw in our chosen audience. The cover consists of vivid colours and a white background which helped the image to stand out. For the cover we chose one image which we then duplicated a number of  times in different colours.

Just like typical digi-paks, the back covers usually have lists of the musics on the album listed on the back cover, we realized that this was missing so we decided to add it immediately.

The text did not really stand out on the background and it is unreadable, so i decided to make some important changes. 

I deleted the centre row images on the background, so that the text will be on top of a plain white background which helps the the words on the digi-pak to be a lot more visible.

I noticed that the colours on the digi-pak was a little bit dull, to brighten it a bit more i inserted a red image which i then put over the dark purple image.

At this stage, i realized that a few this where missing such as: the logo,

 copyright infringement, barcode and the website of the production company. We added all the things that was mising imediately.

At this stage i realized that some of the text where still unreadable so i moved the whole text up slight and a little bit to the left hand-side.

We were unhappy with the yellow coulor of the text, so we decided to change it to red because the red colour stood out alot more.

This is the final production of the backcover of the digi-pak

2nd draft of editing the first picture for the digi pak

This is the original picture

I clicked  the quick select tool and my aim was to highlight the back ground.

I Succeed, and i the deleted all the back ground colour by rubbing it of with the rubber tool. And a white background was left behind the artist. This was great because the background was left plain with plenty of room for creativity. 

At this point i had many ideas, one of them of ideas one of them was to create a sort of a broken glass effect on the background.What i did to achieve this was at first i clicked the filter tab right on the.top of the toolbar. I then clicked on the Filter gallery and it brought out all theses options which you can see on the screen. I clicked on the stain glass effect and that is how i achieved the stained glass look. Overall i was too happy with this effect, so i decided to give something else a try.

My next idea was to have a water effect , to act as a background behind the artist.

I clicked on filter again on the toolbar again and then i clicked on Distort, and then  on ripple

Overall i was not happy with he full production as the overall picture did not help to represent a typical hip-hop digipak's front cover. So i decided to make some changes to the overall front cover. Firstly, i changed to overall background colour to black. I decided to add some lighting effects to the background to help with the hip-hop representations.  

Steps to achieving the lighting effect: 

1.    Click on Filter
2.  Then render
3.   then click on lighting effects 

As a result of this, a lighting effect was then created on the top right corner of the background.

I wanted to create even more lighting effects, so i decided to add a lot of little dotted colours on to the background of the picture to make it look more like a club scene.

We were unhappy with the fianl result partially because the quality of the front cover of the digi-pak was low so we decided to scrap the whole thing and start again.

Steps of the first draft of the dig pak

Discsketch Label Software.

I downloaded Discsketch Label software online for free.

 After that the first thing i did after the software had loaded up was i clicked on Select label layout and the on Cd and case then it brought out and empty white Cd Disc.

 I Then Clicked on Add image

Then i clicked on the picture i wanted to use.

I clicked on add text.

Then I wrote the Title of the Cd 'Celebration'.

I then changed the colour of the text to red.

I then changed the font to didcot.

Red colour didn't work so i changed it to brown, 

that didn't work either.

I then changed the colour to orange, i didn't like it.

So i changed the colour to blue

I wasn't happy with blue so i changed it to yellow.

I was fed up as no colour seems to match, so 

i decided to create my own, i finally agreed on this light brown-reddish colour.

I recognized the name of the Artist was missing, so i decided to add it on.

Once again i was not happy with the colour so i changed it to red,

this i then agreed on.

Digi pak cover tryouts